Mp, thank you...Hehe--I've been moving more toward HTML5 (and hoping HTML5 editors may be convinced to expose more privileges with permissions, or at least building or using an extension/API that allows such requests within HTML). But my cosmetic changes are mostly for my getting a good understanding of Backbone, rather than out of any mastery of it. My hopes with Backbone (to the extent I have free time) at present are:

See if I can use on Common-Node+Mongoose and share with the client for it to reuse MVC code with an adapter on IndexedDB.

Allow the templating to plug-in a JS or JSON object to be converted to HTML (or even CSS). As you can see, I am really keen on the ability to use the same syntax everywhere. :)
But feel free to share any ideas if you've got something and are serious about it...